Mealey's (December 21, 2020, 10:49 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Citing the impending expiration, a split U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 17 denied an emergency application to vacate a stay issued in a lawsuit by a private religious school and the Kentucky attorney general challenging the governor’s executive order closing most public and private schools until January in response to the rising number of COVID-19 cases, caused by the novel coronavirus (Danville Christian Academy, Inc., et al. v. Andy Beshear, No. 20A96, U.S. Sup., 2020 U.S. LEXIS 6104)....